Cherish The Book Publishers—You'll Miss Them When They're Gone

wsj.com:

The Klondikers of digital publishing are rushing to stake their claims, inspired by tales of the gold to be found in the Kindle hills. A few pioneering prospectors have indeed struck it rich with light entertainments, most famously Amanda Hocking, who is a sort of Tolkien for our times (if Tolkien had been an avid fan of "Star Wars" instead of an eminent scholar of "Beowulf"). Her self-published e-books racked up so many sales over the past year that St. Martin's Press recently signed her for some $2 million.

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Comments

[UnRed]

12:03 PM on 07/05/2011

Book publishers, like record companies, are a blight on humanity. Once upon a time, they were a necessary evil but nowadays? We'll hold a brief but meaningful ceremony for them as they RIP.

[raven119]

01:36 PM on 07/01/2011

There was a reason publishers called their unsolicited manuscripts a "slush pile."

I'm not going to spend 99 cents to wade through it one unedited tome at a time.